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Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton boasts the gladdening sight of Laurie Metcalf, her every bit the equal John Lithgow and director Joe Mantello’s unfailing grace, but for all of that, no small part of the satisfaction this play delivers is recognition of an entirely different sort. Yes, you’re likely to think at least…

Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow will return to Broadway next spring in Hillary and Clinton, a just-announced production by A Doll’s House, Part 2 playwright Lucas Hnath. To be directed by Joe Mantello and produced by Scott Rudin, the play goes “behind closed doors” of a very famous couple indeed. But expect surprises…

How much baggage does The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley’s 50-year-old groundbreaker, tote onto its first-ever Broadway stage? How many memories of early Off Broadway notoriety, dismissive reappraisals and late-in-the-day charges of antiquated self-loathing? Oh Mary, don’t ask. Or actually, do. Because director Joe Man…

The gorgeous, deceptively calming bedroom set that frames Three Tall Women at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre loses none of its beauty with the lights way up and the house empty (save for myself, director Joe Mantello and the occasional crew member fussing with whatever needs fussing hours before Glenda Jackson, Laurie…

Sally Field‘s citric, unvarnished performance as Amanda Wingfield is so riveting you may find your focus pulled from the larger picture created by Sam Gold‘s shocking revival of The Glass Menagerie, which opened tonight at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre. Stripped bare of the accoutrements of poverty Williams so carefully…

Sally Field (Hello, My Name Is Doris) will play Amanda Wingfield, one of the American theater’s most resonant leading roles, in a Broadway revival next season of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie produced by Scott Rudin. Rudin’s announcement Monday comes fast on the heels of his announced plans to bring Angela La…

Broadway loves a fine romance and nowhere are the sparks showering down more heat and crackle than the ones being thrown off by Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams in Blackbird, which opened tonight at the Belasco Theatre. Their rapture is murderous. They want to annihilate each other. This is the electrifying…

UPDATE Monday A.M.: Adds video clip. Earlier: It’s been eight years since the Roundabout Theatre Company launched both its postage-stamp size developmental space on West 46th Street and the career of an extraordinary playwright, with Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate, whose film adaptation wrapped a few weeks ago and is…

The last international rock icon to stake a claim on Broadway was Bono, and we know how that worked out. Happily, The Last Ship — an unapologetically sentimental coming-of-age tale with gorgeous, deeply felt songs by Sting — is no Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark. The Last Ship, which opened Sunday at the Neil Simon…